Pettisville High School - Lariat Yearbook (Pettisville, OH)

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THE SENIOR HISTORY . - iw 'ff mf m As freshmen we started off with a bang! During the first few weeks of school we held our first class meeting and elected Dorothy Burkholder as president, Stanley Zeigler as vice-president and Shirley Frey as secretary- treasurer. Mr. Gottschalk was chosen as sponsor, and a very efficient one he proved to be! Everett Nafziger and Clara Ann Frey served as Student Council members for the year. We were initiated during the second week of school by the superior so- phomores and suffered the usual indignities. Of course, we again became the friends of the sophomores after they gave us the annual initiation party in the evening. Later in the year we gave a freshman return party. lt was held in the home economics room, where garnes and refreshments were enjoyed by all. A Christrnas party was held in the music building. The room was ap- propriately decorated and gave forth the real holiday spirit, We played games and exchanged gifts, and so began our Christrnas vacation. In February, a Valentine party was held in the home economics room. Of course, there was the usual valentine exchange, and a true valentine spi- rit ruled the evening. V r In February, also we entered a pest contest and fought valiantly again- :st the superior sophomores. The pests were brought in every Wednesday and Friday. We lost to the sophomores and gave them a party soon after the contest ended. The spring days came rapidly by, and before we fully realized it we had closed the volume which contained the diary of our freshrnen activities. In September we opened a new volume of 'our school life and elected Stanley Zeigler, as president, Gene Lantzf as vice-president, and Shirley Frey as secretary-treasurer and Miss Harriet Rupp as sponsor. Galen Waldfogel and Betty Burkholder served as Student Council members from our class. We heaped revengeful indignities upon the freshmen, and a party was given in the evening as a sort of antidote for their sufferings of the morning We ordered our class rings and pins from Mr. Balfour, a representa- tive from the Balfour company, March Z. We gave an assembly program, March 27. The outstanding features of it were two playlets, The Mystery of X and Mildred is My Name, which were given byvarious members of our group, The freshrnan return party was given, April 10, in the home economics room. The evening was enjoyed by all. Again we closed the volume and a slight intermission called vacation passed by. In the fall we again resurned T N 1 3 I I Q 5 1 . 2 2 3 1 1 1 4 T 1 1 JN 3 1 -A

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X Clas s History KC ontinuedj our tasks with Eugene Lantz as president, StanleY Zeigler as vice president, Betty Burkholder, secretary-treasurer, and Mr. Ray as sponsor. Our main attraction was the giving of the junior play, The Great Ben Allah. Eugene Lantz who played the leading role accidentally hypnotized two household servants, Dorothy and Hawkins. The servant parts were played by Betty Burkholder and Robert Weber, respectively. The production was very well at- tended. We sold ice cream at noon to raise money for our various activities. We also sold popcorn and hot dogs at basketball games. One of our great accornplishrnents, in English, at least we consider it so, was the writing ofa long paper. The topics were taken from various sources, which Miss Wyse thought rather important. The junior girls played basketball with the sophomores. After a hard battle the juniors pulled through with the runner-up chaznpionship. We gave a very beautiful banquet to the seniors, as an annual event. We hope the seniors were as well pleased with our decorations as we were. Well, anyhow, they finally reached the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow which is a goal not many individuals obtain. Our theme song was, l'm AlwaysChas- ing Rainbows. On the last day of school we combined forces with the seniors for a picnic, lt was held in D. W. Nofziger's woods. And so we ended our junior years at P. H. S. In the fall of '46 we opened the most interesting vqlmne of mu- entire school life. In the beginning of the year we chose Mr. Springer as our sponsor. Eu- gene Lantz was chosen as President, Shirley Frey as Vice President, and Betty Burkholder as secretary-treasurer. We chose silver and aqua as our class colors, and the red rose as our class flower. We also chose as our motto, Nothing is ixnpossible to a will- ing mind. We seniors had our pictures taken in September by the Wines Studio from Detroit. On October 15, everyone was rushing up to us and saying, Let me see your proofs, Yes, the proofs had arrived. We were heard exclairning, Do I actually look like that? Of course, we had high hopes that the pictures would look much different after they had been retouched. But all we could do was wait, hope and see. Finally the fateful day ai-rived,Decernber Z0. Various stifled exclamations were heard, little gasps of joy, their hopes had come trueg their pictures did look differ ent. On November 22. was the big night. We gave the play, johnny Get Your Girl. Everett Nafziger played the role of Uncle Charlie, the old ,miser who was always trying to keep everyone from getting his money.Eugene Lantz played the role of johnny, who performed several well-remember ed, blood- curdling Indian Dances . ' ' . .